breasts look very small. Not to mention I come off
very hippy.”
— Actor Jason Alexander (Seinfeld) on the
film Love! Valour! Compassion!,
to Entertainment Weekly, May 23
“Tom is so big and so manly, he could, you
know, just grab me. I was like Vivien Leigh to his
Clark Gable.”
— Kevin Kline to Entertainment Weekly on
his kissing scene with Tom Selleck
in the film In and Out
“I used to [worry] more before I did concerts,
and I thought, well, they hear me on record where
you perfect everything. When you go out and sing
live...you could have flaws and imperfections
[but] in time I said, ‘You know what? I love the
flaw. I love the imperfections.’ There is no such
thing as perfection.”
— Barbra Streisand on
The Rosie O ’Donnell Show, Nov. 21
“I don’t see why anybody of the same sex or
the opposite sex in this day and age needs to get
married. I was old-fashioned in that I always
thought that I had to get married. But that’s passé
now, so I don’t have to do that anymore.”
— Elizabeth Taylor to PO Z magazine,
November issue
compiled by Rex Wockner
about k.d. lang? She wears men’s clothing.’ And
she says, ‘I know, but you’re so pretty.’ ”
— Chastity Bono on Cher,
to The New York Times, July 9
“I don’t believe there is such a thing as gay or
straight. I think the only thing that exists is sexual
ity.... To me, a truly evolved person is bisexual, or
at least open to the possibility of being bisexual. I
don’t consider myself to be liberated because I
sleep with men.”
— Boy George to Australia’s
Outrage, July issue
“I didn’t have sex until I was about 23. And
then I didn’t stop. Now, though, I’m very picket
fence.... I love promiscuity— but why should I
sabotage my life?... I never go to discos now. I’d
feel like the queen mother if I went, I’m so old. I’d
rather go to an antique show or read a book.”
— Elton John to Rolling Stone, July 10
“I procrastinate for as long as I possibly can
until I’m in excruciating agony, and then I start
working. And then I build up momentum until I’m
in this totally focused, concentrated state and then
I finish and then I collapse.”
— Dykes to Watch Out For cartoonist Alison
Bechdel to Los Angeles’ Lesbian News,
July issue
“I almost certainly contracted it [HIV] through
oral sex. And not even to ejaculation, just through
pre-cum, which is why it was so stunning for me
to find out [I am positive]. Of course, people look
at you and they think, poor love, she’s completely
in denial. But honestly, I’m the sort of person that
if there were an incident I could point to and blame
myself for, I would. I would beat myself up about
it. The truth is that I— over a period of five years
of basically having that rule, that 1 would have no
unprotected anal intercourse and no oral sex to
ejaculation— thought I was safe. I was clearly
wrong.”
— Activist and journalist Andrew Sullivan
in the April issue of POZ
PHOTO BY REX WOCKNER
REVELATIONS
l used to tignt with my daddy and my mama
about the stuff I wore. I wasn’t doing it to be
trashy. I was doing it ’cause I didn’t feel right just
being ordinary. It was almost like being gay. It’s a
good thing I was bom a woman, ’cause I’da damn
sure been a drag queen if I hadn’t. I can’t get flam
boyant enough.”
— Dolly Parton to Out magazine, July issue
“My folks are not homophobic, but I don’t
think they’ve ever seen two men kissing, and I
don’t know how comfortable that would make
them on a huge screen, with no place else to look.
My mom kept saying [during shooting], ‘When is
it coming out?’ and I had to honestly say to her,
‘You know, I’m not sure this is gonna be one
where you wanna bring everybody from the
condo.’ Mostly because tutus are not flattering to
anybody, especially to me. Those things make my
Larry Kram er
ELLENMANIA
Kevin Kline in In and Out
“When I was in the NFL, I had group sex
involving women as a way to have sex with men,
often other athletes.”
— Former pro football player Dave Kopay
to The New York Times, Sept. 7
“I never wear denim, but I w asn’t surprised to
be asked by Levi’s to do [a TV] commercial. I’m
not surprised by anything that happens in America
anymore.”
— Gay author Quentin Crisp, 88,
to London’s The Pink Paper, Aug. 8
“Yeah, I’m in love [with Leisha Hailey of the
band The Murmurs]. They [The Murmurs] are
young and unjaded. Working with them [produc
ing songs] really helped me get my shit together
and recover my lust for making music.”
— k.d. lang to the
Sydney Morning Herald, July 3
“The other day she said: ‘I hate your shoes. Are
they m en’s shoes?’ And I said, ‘Yes, they are, and
OK, so you hate them.’ A few years ago, I would
have been crushed. I’d never be caught dead in the
stuff she wears, and it totally doesn’t matter. I’m a
butch dyke, I guess. I like m en’s clothing. And
Mom says, ‘But you’re so pretty.’And I say, ‘What
“I accept this on behalf of all the people— and
the teenagers out there especially...who think
there’s something wrong with them because
they’re gay. There’s nothing wrong with you, and
don’t ever let anybody make you feel ashamed of
who you are.”
— Ellen DeGeneres accepting the Emmy
award for outstanding writing
in a comedy series, Sept. 14
“Let’s go out and terrify some Baptists!”
— Actress Emma Thompson, playing herself
on the Nov. 19 episode of Ellen, as she prepares
to out herself as a lesbian during a televised
awards ceremony. The Southern Baptist church is
boycotting Disney, which owns ABC, in part due
to Ellen Morgan’s coming out.
“No one knows what we have together, no
one.... I always used to be so envious of married
people. Now this is it for me, for both of us, forev
er.... Anne’s taken a lot of flack for what she’s
done, but in 25 or 30 years, when w e’re still
together and out of this business, we can look back
and laugh. Maybe it’s a horrible thing to say, but
Anne and I both had the same reaction when
Princess Di died, that she had just found the man
of her dreams and then he died, and how could you
go on living after that without that person? If Anne
goes, I want to go, that’s how strongly I feel.”
— Ellen DeGeneres on her lover,
Anne Het he, to 7V Guide, Oct. 11
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